US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on May 20 for "Vehicle steering wheel mounted acoustic warning device having normally closed contacts" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,387, issued on May 20, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Vehicle steering wheel mounted acoustic warning device having normally closed contacts" was invented by Matthis Barritault (Poitiers, France) and Thomas Letierce (Vouneuil s/Biard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic warning device for a motor vehicle, having: a base part, a mobile control part, an electrical command detection circuit with at least two switches, the switches are normally closed switches, and the two switches are connected in series, in that at least one of the switches has two contacts that are isolated from one another."...